Chasing Amelia Earhart with Chris Williamson

Astonishing Legends

Scott Philbrook

History, Society & Culture

4.6 • 9.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2017

⏱️ 134 minutes

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Join us tonight as we sit down with Chris Williamson, the project creator of Chasing Earhart. Chris, along with his wife Vanessa and their dedicated team of researchers and producers, has created a podcast and are working on a documentary all about legendary aviatrix Amelia Earhart: her life, her persona, her fateful last flight and the controversy that surrounds her legacy. The result is that Chasing Earhart has rapidly become one of the definitive repositories of information and interviews of the authorities who continue to devote their lives to solving her disappearance. In our interview with Chris, we discuss the major researchers, their theories, and current investigations which aim to solve one of the greatest mysteries of the 20th Century.

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0:00.0	This week's episode of Estonishing Legends is brought to you by the Great Courses Plus,
0:03.3	Stamps.com, Simple Contacts, Proflours, and Our Contributors at Patreon.com.
0:09.6	Exactly three years ago, we posted episode four of Estonishing Legends.
0:14.8	It was our first multi-part series, as well as our first look at a historical mystery involving a
0:19.9	world famous, unsolved disappearance. That of Amelia Earhart. It was a big show for us back then,
0:27.1	downloaded nearly 10,000 times in the first two weeks. Both parts of that series have now been
0:32.6	downloaded an additional 500,000 times. It's clear to us that Amelia Earhart's life and untimely
0:39.4	disappearance obviously continued to intrigue people to this day. While back then, we sought to
0:45.2	uncover the most prominent theories about what happened to her and her navigator Fred Nune.
0:49.6	There was so much more to the story than we were aware of. So tonight, for episode 90 of our show,
0:57.1	we'll sit down with Chris Williamson, creator and producer of Chasing Earhart, a forthcoming
1:02.0	multi-part documentary series, and an already available weekly podcast that just posted its 16th episode.
1:09.1	Chris and his team have not only picked up where we left off back in 2014,
1:13.6	but they're taking us all so far down the rabbit hole that the trip back to the surface could take weeks.
1:27.7	Welcome back to Estonishing Legends. I'm Scott Philbrook and this is Forest Burjish.
1:38.9	Obviously, I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going.
1:43.4	Once faced and settled, there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it. Amelia Earhart.
1:48.8	Join us tonight as we go way down the rabbit hole in Amelia Earhart's life and disappearance with
1:53.8	our special in-studio guest, documentarian and producer Chris Williamson.
2:05.8	And we're back and we're not spooky this time. Hopefully not. I haven't looked in the mirror lately.
2:11.2	We're both spooky looking, yes. You know what, I'm surprised we survived October, honestly.
2:15.4	Yeah, forget the black-eyed kids. I was more scared of having to do another show without any
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